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Many of the poems in Janet Shepperson's first collection take a sometimes satirical, sometimes serious look at the changing ways in which women see themselves, their world and their relationship with men. The settings move from the urban landscapes of the poet's home in Ballynafeight, Belfast, to the rocky and often bleak landscapes of Donegal.... more info

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A group of experimental poems by one of the senior figures in modern poetry. Robin Skelton was born in Yorkshire in 1925 and lived in Victoria, British Columbia until his death. He had been fascinated by Irish writing since the early sixties and edited both JM Synge and Jack B Yeats, as well as writing about several poets. This collection is part of a larger project in which he composed poetry in other Celtic forms... more info

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'The enfant terrible of Irish poetry is still at large, still eternally young at heart. Irish high-priest prestigious, joyous celebrant of sex, his mature voice has acquired neither cynicism nor guile.... more info

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"Ulster poetry without Simmons would be unthinkable, and any discussion of Irish poetry that omits him falls flat on its face... In a destitute time his independence of spirit is exemplary and profound." Thomas McCarthy more info

This book contains a generous selection of poems responding to life in Ireland, where the author has had a home since 1964. Focused primarily in County Clare, the book records the author's encounters with the landscape, animals and people of Ireland in historical, mythical and contemporary settings.... more info

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What Trudy Knows and Other Poems follows the ground broken by Knute Skinner's last collection The Bears and Other Poems. An unusual group of poems - each a brief telling of a moment in the life of one or more imaginary characters. The poems probe a variety of human relationships... more info

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"Jo Slade's second collection, The Vigilant One, has the same sure magic as its predecessor, In Fields I Hear Them Sing (Salmon, 1989). The images strike deep, like deft brush strokes, as poet/painter Jo Slade takes us through light and shade, nuance, subtlety of tone, passion of colour.... more info

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The poems of Split the Lark record one man's mission to find the mythic in the social, the crucial in the casual, the supernatural in the natural. R. T. Smith's precise images and quietly modulated music cast a wide net.... more info

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This large volume of poetry gathers together poems -- previously published & unpublished dating from 1961-1993. Explored with considerable detachment, Eithne Strong's themes are life, death, youth and age, each expressed in the highly achieved style which marks her as a major figure in Irish contemporary poetry. Her death, in August 1999, left literary Ireland feeling a profound sense of loss... more info

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After the Ball is Breda Sullivan's second collection. Her poetry is much praised for its quality of delving deeply into human experience with a spare, exacting grace. She was winner of the 1998 National Women's Poetry Competition, among many other prizes.... more info

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"You have to keep listening to Jean Valentines work, because every time some shape of sadness or recognition rises up in you as a familiar meotion, the poem veers off, leaves what you already know behind... Her work is so subtly not what you think, and of the spirit, and as fresh as water, or cool weather." Robert Hass more info

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In Tin Drum Country and Sharing Darwin Sabine Wichert subtly roots her adopted town of Belfast into her own background: her inheritance of "The burning cities of Europe". The poems span a lifetime of family, friends, and her own girlhood formed by the turmoil of 20th Century Europe....

Sabine Wichert was born in Graudenz, West Prussia (now Grudziadz, Poland) and grew up and was educated in West Germany. She has been teaching history at Queen's University, Belfast since 1971 and has a special interest in the visual arts. She was a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from the mid-1980s to 1994 and is a member of the Board of Annaghmakerrig appointed by both Arts Councils in Ireland. more info